Get up close, though, and she looms 90 ft., the largest Virgin Mary statue in North America. Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue built in the likeness of Mary, the mother of Jesus, that sits atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana.. It is the fourth-tallest statue in the United States after Birth of the New World, The Statue of Liberty, and the Pegasus and Dragon.The base is 8,510 feet above sea level and 3,500 feet above the town. Our Lady of the Rockies. We are a small Catholic parish in Canmore with a global reach. Yum!---have to remember this at christmas this year! Donations to help maintain Our Lady of The Rockies statue and to help support the Tram are greatly appreciated. But while you're checking out the barren views at the acid pit, if you turn your eyes to the mountains, you'll see a site that's a little more, well... hopeful. On the towering East Ridge overlooking the city sits the third-tallest statue in America: a 90-foot-tall homage to the Blessed Virgin Mary, brilliantly white and perched 3500 feet above the valley floor, known as Our Lady of the Rockies. We had a hard time to find the "Our Lady of the Rockies." Butte, Montana is probably most famous for being home to the Berkeley Acid Pit, an open lake of toxic sludge that formed after a mining incident (it even has an observation deck and gift shop). Butte, Montana. The art is a stained-glass depiction of Mary and the Christ Child. It is elevated 8000 feet and at the same time it is exactly at the continental divide overlook. Eventually we found it. 1,659 were here. Filled with curiosity about what would possess people to build a 90 ft statue of Our Lady during the deepest recession in their history, I found the book and ordered myself a copy. 29 March 2020- An afternoon walk up on the Benchlands revealed how close we are to having the exterior of the Shrine Church complete! Written by Joy Gregory, March 12 ===== The new church won’t open until a few weeks after Easter Sunday, but parish priest Fr. There is a monument of Our Lady of the Rockies. Her story began in 1979 with Butte resident Bob O’Bill, whose wife was nearing death from cancer. Because the the lack of availability, I had low expectations. Our Lady of the Rockies might not top Lady Liberty or that crazy Pegasus/dragon thing, but only she lights up the Rocky Mountain night sky. Nathan Siray is already thinking about how one particular piece of sacred art will inspire everyone who enters Our Lady of the Rockies Catholic Church in Canmore. For more information please call us at (406) 782-1221 or email [email protected]ourladyoftherockies.net The Lady of the Rockies is huge, but from Butte, looking across the toxic open pit lake, she is just a white nub along a rocky ridge. Let us ask Our Lady of the Rockies and St Joseph to bestow a spirit of encouragement in our trades and keep everyone onsite safe and healthy! This is a must see! I ordered this book after happening upon the Our Lady of the Rockies statue on a road trip out west. ! Jun 10, 2013 - Christmas Eve Creamy Crockpot Hot Chocolate - 1.5 cups heavy cream, 1 can of sweetened condensed milk (14oz), 2 cups milk chocolate chips, 6 cups of milk, 1 tsp vanilla extract.